In recent years, traffickers have developed strains of coca bush that can thrive in the lower-altitude, warmer and more humid ...

Nearly two years ago, researchers hit the streets of three mid-sized B.C. cities to see how things were going for crack addicts. Last month, the results were released in a study that concludes that ...

It's not enough to buy crack. You need a pipe to smoke it. And since drugstores don't sell crack pipes, self-confessed addict Tony Smith has gone into a lot of dirty places in this Vancouver Island ...

Vancouver and two of Brazil’s large coastal cities have something in common, and it’s not bikinis on their beaches—it’s crack addicts. A new study by an SFU professor calls for urgent intervention ...

A large police bust of cocaine in Winnipeg earlier this week has drawn attention to a growing problem with crack addiction on the streets of the Manitoba capital. Winnipeg police say crack is getting ...

DELRAY BEACH — If only the train would come now, Desmond Meade said he remembered thinking as he stood on railroad tracks in Miami 19 years ago. The train would mangle his body, snuff out his life.

A drug addict convicted in the second-degree murder of a crack dealer has been sentenced to life in prison. Superior Court Justice James Turnbull sentenced Douglas Jackson to life with no chance of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Days after police stormed one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous shantytowns to seize back territory long held by a powerful drug dealing organization, city health and welfare ...

Those who work with Ottawa's drug-addicted homeless say they believe crack for sale on the streets is being cut with more dangerous and addictivecrystal meth. Diane Morrison, head of the Ottawa ...

A Winnipeg crack addict who seriously sexually assaulted two women within 45 minutes of each other has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Garry Edwards was arrested April 12, 2012 following a ...

For many years Kathy Middleton was picked up by police for crime. Nowadays she’s taken to the police station for a much different reason: to deliver motivational speeches. Middleton, 56, said she used ...

A violent, crack-smoking alcoholic who sexually assaulted, choked and held a woman hostage until she ran naked from his East York home was slammed with a 10-year prison sentence Wednesday. Walter ...